Brian Fremeau of Football Outsiders writes that both Alabama's 2009 team and last year's Auburn squad defied the odds by going unbeaten in the SEC. That, along with a stronger-than-normal league elite, means that an undefeated 2011 SEC champ is unlikely.

Echoes of 2007 are reverberating through the early weeks of the 2010 season. Football Outsiders compares the campaigns and finds it highly unlikely that even top teams like Alabama and Ohio State will finish the year unbeaten.